Chapter 12 of novel-in-progress, Covid-1984, The Musical

In this chapter I bring together some major themes of the book, and our of times.  In Amenia, the small-town setting of this story, for many generations there was state school for “feeble-minded children” that employed most of the residents.  It was the site of a horrific scandal in the 1950s: murders, abuse, forced sterilization. […]